...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| 4569720 | Copper etching system The invention relates to a novel process of etching a metal clad substrate which comprises contacting said substrate with one or more reactive gases, as for example ozone, to form one or more reaction products on the surface of the said metal which are mo... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4538921 | Apparatus and method for slurrying soda ash This invention relates to an improved soda ash slurrying device, which includes liquid and soda ash particle passages and separating means positioned between the interior openings of these passages to prevent contact between water or aqueous sodium carbon... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4537614 | S-aryl and S-aliphatic diamidophosphorothiolates as urease inhibitors and urease inhibited urea based fertilizer compositions Novel urease inhibiting phosphorothiolate compounds, urea based fertilizer compositions including such compounds, and methods and compositions for using such compounds to inhibit the activity of urease.... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4482685 | Copolymerization of ethylene and chlorotrifluoroethylene in an aqueous emulsion A method of emulsion copolymerization of ethylene and chlorotrifluoroethylene in the presence of a water soluble initiator and a water soluble fluorosurfactant. The fluorosurfactant having the general formula: CA3 (CF2)B (... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4323706 | Production of acetaldehyde oxime Acetaldehyde oxime, a commercially useful intermediate in the production of pesticides, is prepared by oximating acetaldehyde with an aqueous hydroxylamine-containing solution to form an aqueous oximation reaction mixture and recovering acetaldehyde oxime... | 04/06/1982 |